- you can do 'retweets' via RSS, - you can do 'only see who i follow' - you can do 'only publish to some people' (subscriber-only feeds, though they are hacks) - you can share arbitrary length things and arbitrary filetypes through rss - the posts are yours because they live on your blog or whatever
you just need a contacts list that lets the magic happen. I don't have the cycles to go deep on it.
a lot of people derisively say "you are describing RSS"
some people claim software engineers aren't engineers but i think you're thinking about it wrong.
upper management regularly demands you do the equivalent of getting 600 pounds of steam pressure out of your boiler rated for 440 and damn the consequences
how can that not be Engineering. The computer industry has roots in the Navy, not mechanical engineering
there is no hover tooltip. if you can't figure out a non-cryptic icon, you have to put it in the threedots menu even if you keep the icon in the interface
looking at you, gmail Android "mark unread" command it took me 5m to track down
In the 80s into the present, they remade the exteriors of schools to be easy to quash protests in.
By now, the retrofits and new builds for shooter-resistant schools are everywhere, since no one fixed the shooting problem. meant to be held by a small force against a motivated opponent with tools meant to get in.
The built the courtyards to be swept. To quash student protests easily.
Without realizing they were working against themselves, now they build the buildings TO BE HELD.
i swear, you could solve public transit in the US if you just got:
- the software people who truly love the field - to talk to the municipal politics people who are actually doing it for the love of the job - to talk to the train planning people who are actually doing it for the love of the job and or hobby - to talk to the physical security and penetration testing people - to talk to the mining engineers - so they can then plan and pull off a complicated heist to rob the treasury
@thomasfuchs every so often I think about the mix of:
reputation is fragile and permanent, but easy to shed if you don't care about it
things are stated confidently as just a function of language now, so it's hard to know who actually knows anything in a sea of confidently-stated opinions (and no reputation/accountability mechanisms to make bad advice stick to a person giving it)
hey especially hachyderm folks, I've got someone in a bit of a bind.
Brilliant young software person (some infosec leanings, but no formal training there. But some portfolio stuff), iOS based internship.
End of university
looking for jobs that can get them at least residency/visa but ideally immigration, as they risk eventual deportation to a country that's less chill about trans people.
having trouble getting in the door to most places, most jobs she can find don't sponsor visas etc.
@irenes@aredridel there's low code selfhosting stuff like runtipi now, but you have to write your own 'packages' (docker containers and rdns configs) if you want to add things not in the repo so they're compatible with the dashboard + etc
@irenes@aredridel but my local instance was literally just clone repo to raspi or whatever, launch cli, do auth, and that's my selfhost instance that only my tailnet can access
and my remote instance is a hetzner arm box that I did the same on, but has things exposed to the open web there